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Oracle Database Consolidation & Performance on Cisco UCSArun GargSenior Product Manager

August 27, 2012

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What is on YOUR mind today?

• Looking to stretch your IT budget

• Gain higher system utilization

• Migrate to VMware with minimal performance impact

• Save Oracle Database licensing/support costs

• Supportability of Oracle DB on VMware

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The Cisco and Oracle RelationshipIT Leaders Forge Adaptation of Unified Computing

19+ year strategic partnership

All Cisco runs on Oracle database and Oracle E-Business Suite (except Voice & video)

Almost all of it on VMware

Oracle standardize on Cisco networking

Oracle using Cisco UCS in application development (Fusion) and Oracle VM

Cisco UCS balance of processor, memory and I/O drive unparalleled performance

95% of virtualized Oracle Database on VMware!

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Oracle Database VMware Solution Study

2vCPU/8GB 4vCPU/16GB 6vCPU/24GB 8vCPU/32GB0K

100,000K

200,000K

300,000K

400,000K

500,000K

600,000K

700,000K

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

145000

295000

399000

505000

5.2

6.7

7.8

9.5

Single VM scaling with increasing vCPUs

Tra

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Per

Min

ute

Res

po

nse

Tim

e (m

s)

Number of vCPU’s / VM

Database Size Per

VM

Number of concurrent

users Per VM

Memory Per VM

2 1.1 TB 300 8 GB4 1.1 TB 300 16 GB6 1.1 TB 300 24 GB8 1.1 TB 300 32 GB

Single VM Scalability

• Grow size of virtual machines

• vCPU and memory

• Database size constant

• # of users constant

• Measure transaction rate

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Oracle Database Consolidation on VMware

Increase number of VMs on B200 BladeEasily Consolidate Five Databases - With Excellent Performance

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns955/ns967/ucs_tr100026_emc_wp.pdf

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Oracle License/Support SavingsOracle Enterprise Edition is $47,500/core!

Current Configuration VMware Consolidation License Savings

Server

$ 760,000

Four 4-core16 cores Total

Server

$ 760,000

Server

$ 760,000Oracle License

UCS B440 M2

$ 760,000+ VMware

$ 1,520,000

Additional Savings• Oracle Support - $334,400/year• Server HW Support• Power • Management• Space

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Oracle DB Support on VMware

• Oracle supports their application and database on VMware

Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMware Virtualized Environments [ID 249212.1]

• Oracle does not certify their products on VMware, only on Oracle VM

• An Oracle request to recreate problem on “bare metal” is the same point in the support esculation process for Oracle VM & VMware, etc.

• VMware offers a service to take first call support for Oracle

https://vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-support.html

Get the facts!

The vast majority of customers consolidating Oracle Database do so on VMware.

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Many solutions, one shared infrastructure Standardized infrastructure procedures

Cisco® UCSAPIs

Cisco Nexus®

and DCNMAPIs

NetApp OnCommand

APIs

FlexPodInfrastructureManagement

Solution Architecture OrchestrationDBaaS, Consolidation, Testing and Development, etc.

Prescriptive Pool Based Policy Driven

AutomateAnalyzeControl

Oracle Database over

NFS

FlexPod

PhysicalVirtual

FlexPod Solution OrchestrationFor the Oracle Database

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vBlock Momentum

Launched in 2009—Huge Adoption in the Market Place; 100s of Production Customers

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Oracle on UCS Public References

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Cisco IT – TCO improvementsFrom 0% to 80% Virtualized on VMware

Delivery time(incl. process)

‘Medium aggressive’Virtualization

Unified Computing& Automation

‘Highly aggressive’Virtualization

2-3 weeks(manual)

15 minutes(self-service)

15 mins VM2-9 days E2E

15 minutes(self-service)

6-8 weeks(on-demand)

TCO for Physical

$0

$500

$1,000

$1,500

$2,000

$2,500

$3,000

$3,500

$4,000

Legacy, all physical Legacy, medium Current state UCS/Cloud, medium UCS/Cloud, high

TCO for Virtual

-18%-12%

Co

mp

ute

TC

O (

$/Q

tr/O

S in

stan

ce)

Average TCO

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Next Steps?

Do not let Oracle sales inject FUD into your investigation of consolidating on VMware.

GET THE FACTS!

Request a more detailed architecture or sizing discussion today .

Learn why 95% of Oracle Database virtualized customers chose VMware

For more information, visit

www.cisco.com/go/oracle or

email oraclewithcisco@cisco.com

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